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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: TradeHill - Why we no longer accept Dwolla and an open letter to Ben Milne
by
cypherdoc
on 27/07/2011, 16:40:02 UTC
Dwolla and CampBX are discussing a solution to the problem and everything seems to be going fine. MtGox is ok with this (I haven't heard anything from them). Why is TradeHill the only one being ignored? This doesn't make much sense to me...

That seemed very odd to me as well.

As I hypothesized on another thread, perhaps there are NSL's involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter

Mt Gox confirmed some transactions have gone missing on IRC and possibly a post. exchangebitcoin.com confirmed it and isn't accepting Dwolla, Bitcoin7 isn't accepting Dwolla and I've been told they confirmed the chargebacks.

It's 100% possible that CampBX didn't receive any chargebacks. If I have to guess it's because they didn't have the open orders to justify defrauding 5k or they thought they would get caught faster with lower volume to hide in. If that's the case good for them. Dealing with fraud isn't fun. I'm assuming if they continue to accept Dwolla and nothing changes they will see fraud.

Jered

Excuse the repeated question Jered, but did any of your customers lose money in this?  That's really the only concern I have.

Valid question, we are willing to pay out of our own pockets. Had this been higher and we couldn't cover it ourselves yes they would have.
If another exchange is down 50k 100k or 500k and can't afford it then they could go under and their (which a lot are also ours) customers will be hit hard.
It's possible that our mutual customers are going to lose money but it's too soon to say for sure.

To sum it up: We're not going to pass the fraud on to our customers like Dwolla has done. It stops with us because we will eat it if Dwolla doesn't do the right thing.

Jered

well thats laudable.